Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 18, 1895, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAY BEE. BLISHED EVERY MORNING. 1 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, fly Ties (Without Sunday), One Year aily Tiee and Sunday, gix Monihe ree Month Bunday Bre, ORe ¥ear Baturdny Tice, One Yenr. Weekly Iiee, One Yoar OFFICES. Omaha, The Ties Duilding. Bouth Omaha, Singer Bik., Corner N and 2ith Sts, icago Office. 317 Chamber of Commerce. ok, Rooma 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Ballding, ‘ashington, 10T F Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. o All communications relating to news and edi- Rorial matter ahould be addressed: To the Editor. BUSINESS LETTERS, business leiters and remiftances should be addressed o The Hee Publishing Company. Omaha. Dr Ka and putofics ordert 10 ‘made_pavable 10 the order'of the company. "0 B B PUBLISTING COMPANY. a3 Al [ T OF CIRCULATION, George 11 Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Pub. ishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete coples of the Daily Morning, Evening and printed during the month of August, 159 Tollows STAT 10,123 19347 L 19,085 2000 19083 19,117 19,071 19,086 19,032 19,109 L i8) 19,053 19088 19,108 19,058 19,060 Total Lesn dedy coptes Nt aten average ¢ i e GHORG Sworn to before me a prosence this nd day of 195, ( N. P, ry Publie '0 STATE FAIR VISITORS. THE OMAHA DALY BEE THE BEE RECEPTION ROOM. For the accommodation of out-of- town patrons of The Bee and particu- larly newspaper men and women who will' be in attendance upon the state fair In Omaha, The Bee has established a reception room and writing room, of Which all are invited to avail them- selves. The room is on the ground floor of The Hee building and is reached by the west entrance on Farnam street, It will be filled with chair: writing tables and other conveniences. —There will be a visitors’ register In which guests will be expected to inscribe thelr names, All_newspaper people, their friends and patrons of The Bee who come to the state falr will be cordially welcome and will be expected to drop in as often and as long as they find it convenlent, without waiting for a more formal invitation. SPECTIAL VISITORS' HOURS. Visitors to the fair will also be given an opportunity to Inspect lh‘u unex- celled newspaper facilities of The Bee. In order, however, that there may be no confusion, they will be asked to ac- commodate (hemselves to the following hours: The press room on the ground floor of The Bee bullding and opening upon the west side of the court will be open to the public between the hours of 3:30 and 4:30 each afternoon. The composing room, on the sixth floor, entered through room 60, will be open to the public each afternoon from 4:00 to 5. No one who visits the state fair should go away without sceing the finest newspaper plant in the country. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. TO STATE FAIR VISITORS. Land Commissioner Russell appar- ently expected his Grand Island elec- tric lighting job to go through like a flash. The exhibits at the state fair are the best card for attracting Immigration to Nebraska that could possibly be de- vised. What the supreme court says is law may be unpalatable law to the great body of our citizens, but is law just the same and will be obeyed as such. The people of Lincoln are particularly invited to attend the state fair at Omaha and be convinced that no mistake was made in locating it In this city. Mosher and Dorgan are wondering why it is that Beemer succeeded in getting better terms on his prizon labor contract than either one of them did themselves. Hoke Smith Is again at his desk in the Interior department and the wheels of government may continue to revolve with all fear of danger from possible clogging dismissed. It a few boys in the High school want to learn to play foot ball, let them’ club together and raise by sub- scription what they need to pay a pro- fessional coach. They ought not to ask the taxpayers to pay for a coach for them. Members of the Nebraska supreme court will sit henceforth on new quar- gered ouk chairs, supported on ball bearings. It there is anything more conducive to the exact adwministretion of strict justice it is' new oak chairs and ball bearings. We have refrained from Inserting the criminal division of the district court in our schedule of attractions for state fair visitors merely because the judge who presides over it is so erratic that ‘Wwe cannot tell just when his customary circus will take place. — The Bohenilan turners scored a few more big hits in the tourney Monday. About eighty athletes Hned pp for the prize competition. It is a matter of regret that under the ecircumstances the city cannot entertain these turners as their merit deserves. President Diaz was only to have been expected to palnt as attractive a pie- ture of the condition of the Mexican republic as possible. With all its prog- ress, Mexico has a long road to travel before it will get within hailing dis- tance of the United States. Police reform under A. P. A. ausplees has been promptly begun. All the men who had been deposed within the past year for scandalizing the service by in- efficiency and fmmoral conduct have been reinstated, and the most disrep- utable of the job lot have been com- missioned as captains and sergeants. —_—— One of the preparatory years of the State university is abolished this fall, So far, so good. But its place should not be supplled with another |'epart- ment of elementary instruction under the name of a School of Industrial and Mechanic Arts or any other name, The way to make the State university a real university Is to put an end to prepara- tory work under its direction once and for all time, | variance THE POLICK BOARD DECISION. The supreme court of Nebraska has afirmed the constitutionality of the new police commission aet and upheld the validity of the Churchill-Russell ap. pointments. While this decision is at with the opinfons of many cors equally learned in the law and of the on of fhis law- law, no less eminent than the juds court, it is nevertheless the de the highest judicial tribunal of state and binding upon every abiding citizen, It s to be deplored that the decision will be regarded as politi rather than as strictly judicial. It is very un- fortunate that the issue before the court involved incidentally a contro- versy between a populist governor and two republican state officers whose dis- courteous action and discreditable ap- pointments a republican court has thus felt itself compelled to endorse. In this Instance, as in the case of the im- peached state officlals two years ago, a republican court has, unwittingly perhaps, struck a damaging blow at re publican self-purgation and republican supren in the state. The acquittal on mere technical grounds of the state officials whom four-fifths of a republican legislature bad charged with corrupt practices and gross neglect of duty, whereby the treas- ury was looted and the state was robbed, was a pernicious example which soon bore its dead-sea fruit. Stimu- lated by the court's action, the vindi- cated jobbers and boodlers joined hands to dominate republican conventions and to foist upon the party as their suc- cessors in office men who were more un- principled and more unscrupulous than they. Had these men been held rigidly accountable and deposed from power as they should have_been, a man of the record and caliber of Thomas J. Majors would never have dared aspire to the governorship of this common- wealth and men of Russell's and Churchill's stamp would have no place on any ticket. Instead of weakening public confidence in its unbiased judg- ments, the supreme court could have raised itself in popular estimation and strengthened the republican party. The police commission decision will also naturally recall the fact that the enactment of the police bill was or- dered by the general manager of the Burlington railroad with the avowed design to convert the Omaba police and fire departments into machines for bringing the city of Omaha under the political dominion of the Burlington czar. It now remains to be seen whether the people of this city can be bulldozed into corporate bondage by policemen's clubs swung over their heads by such reprobates as Paul Van- dervoort and such political desperadoes as W. J. Broateh, A review of the history of this case or of the legal points involved In this decision is superfluous. Suffice it to say that.the law was conceived in fraud by a set of political mounte- banks, and will now be executed by just the kind of men that, like Cassius, are fit for treason, stratagems and spoils. CONVICT-MADE FOREIGN GOODS. Are foreign goods made by convict labor competing in the American market with goods made by the free labor of this country? suggested by the report from W ton that the State department b celved through its consular agents in- formation obtained from chambers of commerce and trade guilds in Germany showing that the employment of con- vict labor is growing In that country and that large amounts of goods made by this labor are exported. It is not stated that any of these goods are reg- ularly sent to the United States, but there is very little reason to doubt that some of them find their way here. In- deed, it was asserted a short time ago by one of our consuls to Germany that such is the case and he suggested an investigation and also that some action be taken to prevent if possible the im- portation of convict-made goods, desig- nating a varlety of articles which are thus produced abroad. It would man- ifestly be impossible for customs of- ficials to distinguish convict goods from others and it is not easy to con- ceive how the importation of such goods can be prevented. In view of the fact that adulterated wines and other articles represented ‘to be pure are freely exported to the United States from Europe there is reason to believe that the German manufacturers who employ convict labor send goods here, though possibly not so extensively as to England and some other countries. But in any event the matter is certainly one which should receive the serious attention of the government and the labor organizations especially will find in it a subject worthy of their con- sideration. We want no convict-made foreign goods of any kind imported into this country. It s quite enough that American manufacturers are com- pelled under the democratic tariff to meet the severer competition of foreign manufacturers: employing free labor, which is fully testing their ability to hold their share of the home market, THEY ARE FOR MORTON, The New York republican convention unanimously adopted a resolution de- claring Governor Morton to be the choice of the republican representatives of the npire state for the first place on the presidential ticket in 1896. This action was expected, the utterances of prominent New York republicans for some time past having foreshadowed it,” though there was some doubt whether in every case the professed preference for Morton was sincere. Even now there is reason to question whether Mr. Platt and some of his fol- lowers really desire that Governor Mor- ton shall be the republican candidate for president next year, having sup- ported the resolution favoring him be- cause It was politic to do so. Unques- tionably Mr, Morton is a very strong man in New York and he fully merits the high respect and confidence he en- Joys, which Is not confined to republi- cans. In every public sation he has oc- cupled he has shown a high order of ability and In none more so than in that of chlef executive of the Empire state, He has held himself aloof from 'lho factious, he has not put partisan- . THE OMAHA DATLY ahip above every other consideration, and his course has so manifestly heen prompted by high and worthy motives that his political opponents have been | { compelled to acknowledge this, Per haps as a candidate for the presidency "I.v-\'l P. Morton could carry New York, {but what would be his availability in other states which must be relied upon to elect a republican president? Mr. Morton is well thought of by republicans generally is unquestion- able. They regard him as belig ¢ sound, safe man, who would undoubt edly make a good president and who would certainly maintain the dignity | of that high office. But all the quali- fications possessed by Mr. Morton are possessed by other republicans who have the additional advantage of being much younger than he, and how much of an advantage this is in a popu- lar election every experienced polititian understands, Mr. Morton an - old man, though still vigorous for one of | his age, and would not stir the interest and enthusiasm of the younger class of voters as wou!ld Reed or McKinle It is fmpossible to say how far the action of the New York republican con- vention in declaring its preference for | Me. Morton will be regarded as binding | upon the convention of next year that will choose delegates to the national convention. Probably he will get the Empire state delegation, in which case his name will of course be presented to the national convention, but it is not likely he will have much support be- yond this or that it will be particul wggresive in urging his nomination. SUCCE. . aska State fair at Omaha this year Is now an assured success. Not that at any time was there an) imminent danger that it wonld be a failure nor that the men who have spent so much time, energy and money at any moment faltered in their work for fear the results would not be what they hoped and expected. But the preparatory period is always liable to bring delays, mishaps, and misunder- standings that might have imperiled the success of the hvge undertakin The preparatc period been safely passed. The first two days of the great exposition have been more than the most sanguine have anticipated, and it is unnecessary to await the remaining days to characterize the fair as an un- qualified sucees: MEXICAN PROSPERITY. The address of President Diaz at the opening of the Mexican cong hows that our neighbor republic, in whose weterial development the Ameries people should take a great intervst, is enjoying unusual prosperity and nak- ing good progr The mining indus- try is active and the president states that ‘there has been a notable inct in the output of gold. There a remarkable growth of business during the past ye 4 most substantial evidence ereased prosperity. Railrond tion and the extension lines have gone s business with both revenues of the gov ased and the president was able to Y to the congress that there is favor- able promise of the receipts of the treasury for the current fis equaling expenditures, which i ter situation than United can boast, The me: ase has been the postal which is of in- construe- of telegraph radily forward and been good. The rnment have in- the States ge of Mexico's chief exec utive ought to be highly gratifying | and encouraging to the Mexican people and one effect it is very sure to have is that of attracting more foreign capi- tal to that country, so that the prc perity the country is now enjoying is not only certain to be maintained but increased. For what has been accom plished very much is due to the wise, broad and progressive statesmanship of President Di: who is ing his third term with every assurance of another. He is an exceptionally able man and if at times he has e ised his author- ity somewhat arbit y and not alto- gether in harmony with republican ideas, results have justified his course. He has kept peace within the country and maintained friendly relations with other countries. The few attempts that have been mado since he beeame presi- dent to stir up revolution have been summarily crushed and at present, al- though he undoubtedly has enemles, the very large majority of the Mexican people have the utmost confidence in Diaz. Under his administration the policy of Mexico has been to cultivate closer relations with other countries, with a view to enlarging and improv- ing commercial conditions. In short, President Diaz has been guided by the promptings of the highest patriotism and the wisdom of his policy is shown in the fact that today Mexico has a better credit, a higher measure of pros- perity, a more contented people and % stronger place among the nations than ever before. When due consideration is given to the great difficulties that had to be overcome certainly Diaz must be regarded as one of the greatest states- men of the last half of the century, The question of cultivating the closest relations between the United States and Mexico is obviously one to which the people of both republics should give serlous consideration. Whatever bar- riers still remain to the fullest com- mercial intimacy ought to be removed as soon as It is possible to do so, to the eiid that each country shall get the largest benefits that can come from a policy of broad and liberal intercourse, There is reason to believe that Mexico I8 prepared to meet the United States half way in furtherance of such a pol- fey and we should not hesitate to do our part toward its attainment. ————— Owing to delays the World's falr 1 | exhibitors, 1 {ing expedition in the Colorado moun- BEE: WHEDNESDAY, diplomas hoge not yet been dellvered to the pord to whom they svere awarded, ailfll will not be rendy for de- | live until st winter. The Nebraska | state faie @@lomas, however, will be | promptly in o hands of the successful in view of the sharp honors they will be | much as the World's competition Py worth as fair sheepskidy | most Some mewmbers of the Bog 1u- cation still prot€ed on the same theory in respect to the teaching of drawing that they d¢’in respect to the super- vision of When the sal ary of the newly elected supor- intendent, who had been receiv- ing $1,200 a year, was fixed at 3,000, or $600 less than his predecessor ad received, one of the intelligent members said that there was just much work be done and it worth just much whether it done by one person or anothe iy question in the other deps ms to be dealt with in manner, schools, 80 to wis wis The rtinents the same Why not a p stead of a bond issue? “The postal bank would supply the govern- with popular loan at a low rate of Mterest. It would be a loan practically created out of the air, be- cause the feeling of safety in regard to deposits in such a bank would encour- saving to a much greater extent than the private savings banks, whose security does not inspire the same con- fidence among the people. A postal suvings bank should be one of the plans of relieving the treasury seriously con- sidered by ¢ eSS 118 500N A8 it meets, bank in- ings A Pennsylvania man out on a hunt- ins as become lost, and d ard offered for information leading to the discovery of his where- abouts no {race of him has been had in over ten days. Now watch the presi- dential of Pennsy and other states make a bee line for the mountains of Colorado. A place where they can get lost for ten months would suit most of them even better. vania A Jobless Boycott. Chicago Tribun It Mr. Sovereigu's boycoit has strength enough left in it to crawl he should hasten to call it off e Burgoo Nationalized. Indianapolis Journal, Kentucky's sectional *“burgoo” was nation alized at thel encampment. Still, it will take years for an outsider to attain the per- fection of that delectable edible as repre- sented by returning visitors, Glohe-Democrat. cars are twice as heavy as the English, and our tracks cost half as much, yet we hiold the record for fast trains. The tight littlé island is no match for forty- five states, all marching under Old Glory. Ay Furbushing C uncey Chicggo Tribune, Chauncey Depew. is now getting out his makeup box and his blue jeans jn prepara- tion for his approaching appearance as the farmers’ friend in the farce entitled *“Shak- ing Hands for the Presidency.” He Is also polishing up his coliection of storfes, which are all heirlooms and very valuable. Make it Into Ment. Minneapolls Tribune. As little corn as possible should be mar- keted, but it should be put into cattle and hogs ‘so far as possible, and the superior quality of the corn fed article will alway: insure tham a good market at remunerative prices. Corn is aptly called the key to the Amerlcan position; it is the greatest cash crop that be raised in the north, and we are glad to see that Minnesota farmers are every year increasing their corn acreage. Our railway Boom. Kunsas Clty Star. a rule are not soclally “thick’ with Kings, and so It Is unfortunate that Mr. William Waldorf Astor, in the rare event of a citizen of this great republic nebbing with a monarch, should have selec: King Milan of Servia, about whom the most respectable circumstance is that he is the descendant of a swineherd, and who is per- sonally one of the most disreputable of the numerous “toughs” who have borne the title of king. 1\ — Coils Tightened About Holmes. iladelphia Times, If the escape of Holmes shall be possibl in Philadelphia there Is little likelihood t he can finally escape conviction for murder. He is already a convict on his own plea of guilt for a less offense that would hold him in prison for years, and If he were able to ¢iude punishment on the pending Indictment for murder, time would doubtless give up more of its secrcts and assure his conviction in another tribunal for one of his many otber murders. —— State Paying for Soft Berths, ribner News. Now that the penilentiary confract has been let again, many voters of the state are asking why it was necessary to let the con- tract for feeding the prisoners in order to furnish a soft berth at the expense of the people for a contractor, with a salary of $3,000 and perquisites. The inmates of all other institutions are fed and clothed without the ald of a contractor, and it is hard for the average citlzen to understand why the warden cannot attend to the prisoners as well as the Superintendent of the Insane Asylum attends to the patients. —_— Excluding American Meats, Philadelphia Record, There cannot be a reasonable doubt that the action of the local authorities of Ger- many 'n adopting restrictive measures against the sale of American meats is invidious, an prompted not by sanitary but by politieal considerations. Nevertheless, the new regu- lations prescribed by Secretary Morton con- cerning meat)dnspection are In themselves wholesome; and one effect of their promulga- ticn and rigid enforcement will be to demon- strate to the ‘Sitisfaction of impartial Ger- mans themselwes jhat the diserimination against American meats is simply another in- stance of deferenceé to agrarianism run wild. rrr———— The Qutflow of Gold. Ghicago Tribune, The exports of gold from the United States since the close;of 1993 aggregate nearly §170, 000,000 in coinr and; bullion, and the excess of ‘exports oven,imports in that time was nearly $420,500,000, , The differsncs is much more than the tdtdl output from our gold mines in that time;sso that the stock of our public and peivate holdings of gold has diminished sine# the close of the World's fair, in spite of the three. issues of bonds and of what thé syndicate has done In main- taining the reservd since its legal obligation to do 50 ended some three months ago. The situation is a pitiable outcome of democratic " and suggests a repetition of an old-time remark, with slight variation to make it read: ‘‘Another such a victory and the country would be ruined. Baking Powder SEPTEMBER 18, 1898. KING CORN, A Few Remarks on the Rotund Pro- portions of Cerenl Roynity, Bt Louls Republie, The tendeney of the Agricultural depart- ment has been to underest:mate the country's crop yleld. This is probably due to a desire to bs conservative, Private estimates are generally on the other side of the line, Y Absolute correctness s, of course, out of tho question, The crop on which estimates diffor mostly is that of corn. According to most of our grain authorities, this year's corn crop will be the largest in the history of the | country. But that Is not the report of the | Agricultural department. The condition of the | crop is rated at 96.4 in the report for Sep- tember, fssued last week. The yield per acre for the entire country at a standard of 100 is 28.6 bushels of shelled corn. If the condition at harvest is the same as reported by the government for the beginning of S=p- | tember—96.4—thy average yleld per ace will | be 27.57 bushels. The total acreage is placad | at 107.8 as compared with last year's, w we find to have been 62,§82,269 acre | would make the total yleld for the entire| country not quite 1,860,000,000 bushels. Our ‘greatest corn crop was grown in 1889 2112 892,000 bushels. Thit | ; 0,000 and the one in 1891 4.000 bushels. These are the larg est corn crops in the history of the country. | We have had one other, however, which ex ceeded the government's estimate of this year's crop. In 1885 the yleld was 1 76,- 000 bushels. To beat all previous records this year we shall have to produce about 14 pr cent more than the goverame s Iatest esti- mate. It appears from the Agricultural de- partment's report that this year's acreage is soveral miilion acres below the average. The total for the whole country is 67,463,486 acres, n:arly 9,000,000 less than in 1891. But notwithstanding the short acreage, the crop is gong to bs an enormous ons, even as conservatively estimated by the govern- meat. It will beit the annual average for the last five years nearly 300,000,000 bushels. There is scarcely a doubt now that Mis sourl will take first place among the stat as a corn producer this year. It certainly Will i the government repurts for Septem- ber are reliable. The condition of this state’s crop is rated 111—considerably higher than that of any other crop. This means bushels per acre, or 244,260,000 bushels for the whole state. The government's esti- mates, both as to acreage and condition of crop, are taken in figuring out this result. Both Tllinols and Towa have more acres in corn than Missouri, but in condition of crop each ranks below the latter, one 14 and the other 15 points. Estimating the yleld per acre of each at tha normal standard to be equal to Missouri's—and Secretary Morton himself is authority for the state- ment that no state's is greater than Mis- souri’s—Illinois will produce about 233,256,- 000 and Towa over 215,116,000 bushels of corn this year. The probability is that all three states will do better than has been estimated by the government. Together they will produce considerably more than half as much as all the rest of the country, Most of the crop is beyond danger from. frost and in another week or two all of it will be safe. S et & Public Patience, Hoston Advertiser, “‘General Clarkson favors Senator Allison for president.” If Job were living now he would undoubtedly prefer to be smitten with sore boils from the crown of his head to the sola of his foot, to go sit in the ashes and listen to the plous consolations of his three friends and the implous advice of his wife, rather than be compelled to read some of the alleged news that In some Inscrutable way contrives to get Itself telegraphed, as the devil declared, according to the record in the book of Job, that he (the devil) came and went, to and fro in the world, and up and down thereln, So General Clarkson favors the nomina- tion for the presidency of Senator Allison. In other words, the republicans of the state of Towa being unanimously, not to say vo- ciferously, in favor of their most distin- guished citizen and political leader, a prom- inent Towa republican is of the same mind With every other lowa republican, prominent or nmot. And this immense information is loaded upon the telegraph wires at Des Moines and goes hurrylng and scurrying, and whiz- zing and buzzing, and glittering and glister- ing, and humming and booming, all night long throughout the length and breadth of forty-four states, and presumably is served up hot for breaktast in London, Parls, Ber- ln, St. Petersburg and Zanzibar! Shatte: THE PASSING SHOW, The death of John Dunn, a Zulw chief, made orphans of seventy childres. Although a trifle early in the season, Sep- tember Is supplylug an abundance of hot stuft An Indiana Solomon, seconded by a jury holds that kissing a woman s not assault unless the woman resists. In order to secure evidence agalnst an al- leged disorderly house in New York two of the policemen posed as club men. There was no deception In that, for all the policemen of necessity are club-men. The death of Prof. B. V. Riley, the noted bugologist, was due to reckless coasting on a bicycle, His wheel struck a stone at the foot of a hill in Washington, throwing the rider and fracturing his skuli, M. Louls Coulon, a distinguished French lawyer, has a beard nearly eight feet in length. Unfortunately he stands less than five feet six inches and is compelied to wear his unique adorument in coils around his neck. It is a curious circumstance that J. L. Ash- bury, the first English challenger for the America’s cup, should die at this particular time. He contended for the cup twice, the first time with the Cambria, in 1870, and the | second time a year later with the Livonia. Robert Pate, an Australian millonaire, whose death 13 reported, struck Queen Vie: torla in the face with a cane forty years ago, when he was a lieutenant in the Tenth Hus- sars. For this he was banished to Australia, Ho amassed great wealth, but was never per- mitted to leave Australia. It is given out as a remarkable circum- stance that Plerre Lorillard, the tobacco king, does not use the weed in any form. If we did not know how good tobacco is we might think he refrained from the use of tobacco on the same principle that doctors are said to avoid taking medicine. Two relles of Revolutionary times to be exhibited at the Atlanta exposition, relics to which an unusual amount of sentimental in- terest attaches, are the sash and sword worn by Major Andre. They are the property of one of his descendants, Mr. Alfred Rodney. and are sent to Atlanta by Mrs. Greenhalge, wife of the Massachusetts governor, Emperor William was surprised and dis- pleased at the forced march of General von Waldersee, which resulted in the discomfiture of the Army of the South. Naturally he would be. His lmperlal majesty commanded the discomfited army. General yon Walder- see showed himself to be a great general by his maneuver, but a mighty bad diplomat. The crisp new one, two, five and ten dollar bills will be ready for issue within a month or two; and it is sald that the Bureau of En- graving and Printing, anxious to offset the criticlsms * evoked by his early attempts at postage-stamp making, has endeavored to make the new currency exceptionally at- tractive. But the quality of the work is a secondary consideration. ~The main thing is the quantity getatable, Garrett P. Serviss, the astronomer, got lost in ascending Mont Blanc a few weeks ago, in a furious snow storm, narrowly es- caped slipping into a crevasse, and was sSnow- bound without food on the Dromedary's Humps for a night and two days. But he tried it again a fortnight later, and made the cent, when on his return to' Chamounix he vas saluted with cannon and champagne in recognition of his pluck. A conspicuous figure at the celebration of the Soclety of the War of 1812, in Baltimore on Thursday, was Captain James Hooper. Speaking of him the Baltimore Sun says: “Captain Hooper was born July 5, 1504, and when 10 years old was a powder boy on the United States schooner Comet, in the Chesa- peake bay, on which his father was an ofi- cer. He remembers the events of his early years and no one applauded more enthusiasti- cally than he at the park celebration. The appearance of Captain Hooper does not Indi- cate his extreme age. He is of tall and com- manding stature, agile in his movement, and looks many years younger than he is. The captain occupled a seat in the park pavilion, together with members of the soclety, in- vited guest and those who took part in the exercises.” e NICKEL-IN-THE-SLOT POETRY. Somerville Journal. O if T only had a yacht! Then summer days when it grew hacht, Leaving this sun-tormented spacht, T would go salling—surely nacht In loneliness, for charming Dacht Would go with me to share my lacht. Pure_happiness without a blacht Our lives would show, and when we gacht Back home again, no ‘schemer’s placht Could spoil our joy, for not a jacht Of care would stay within our cacht To worry us—but this is racht. TOWA PRESS COMMENT, oux City Journal: The real contest in the Towa election this year must be between the democrats and populists—for second place, Sloux City Tribune: The state falr held at Des Molnes last week was a financial success. Its income was $20,000 over expens: will pay off the indebtedness of the asses tion and leave a balance in the treasvry. The total receipts from gates and s theater were $19,361, which doew n $13.000 worth of tickets sold In advance, The privileges, ete., brought in about $6,000, making the total receipts $38,000 fr numbers. The state fair this year w. aged in a businessiike manner, and, sult, was a success, Cedar Rapids Times: Towa's barley crop s reported as big as the oat crop this year, enough to supply the breweries of = the country. And yet, Towa cannot legitimately manufacture a bushel of this grain into boer; she must ship It to other states for manu facture and return it in the fluid state for lowa consumers, To permit beer to be sold in Towa, but to_ prohibit its manufacture is as much the h@ght of business folly as to prohibit the feeding of lowa oats to Towa horses until it had been made into ground feed In some other state. Right or wrong, the products of all manufac ured articles from lowa grains sold in lowa should be manufactured in this st Dubuque Telegraph: The expense of en- forcing the revenue laws in the southern dis- trict of Towa exceeds the revenue, and the assigned reason is that for the sake of the fees to bo made the federal marshals are superfluously and extravagantly industrious In the pursuit and arrest of “‘bootleggers.”” While perhaps few, if any, arrests are made that are not warranted by law, they are complished in such a way as to increase the cost of the administration of justice, The obvious remedy is the substitution of salaries for fees. 1t congress should pass a law providing for the payment to marshals and their deputies of fixed annual sums, the de- tection, arres* and prosecution of bootleggery would be more economically effected Atlanta Constitution: Stranger—I would like to see your bill collector a moment? 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